Performance Re-enactment Society

Things To Do With Books: A Do-It-Yourself Exhibition

Done any good books lately? As part of the show The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey, the Performance Re-enactment Society (PRS) invites you to take part in a series of enactments in response to the book works in the exhibition. Over five occasions they will carry out a selection of instruction-based works with you, realising other people’s art and creating original versions. Drop in or sign-up for this series of free events.

The Performance Re-enactment Society is an occasional collective of artists, archivists and researchers, who use documents and memories to revive past art experiences and create them anew. Their collaborative performance re-enactments are acts of conservation and transform past works into new events.

In its current constellation the PRS are Paul Clarke, Clare Thornton, Tom Marshman (all Arnolfini We Live Here Associate Artists), with participants and guests. 

ACT 1:
Fri 21 Nov 6pm:
PRS will carry out Douglas Gordon’s Three Steps to Heaven, 1996. At this opening event spread a rumour about the following meetings (Stephen J. Kaltenbach, 1969).

ACT 2: Sat 29 Nov 2pm:
Meet at Arnolfini. Once there await further instruction.

ACT 3: Sat 13 Dec 2pm:
Bring a large piece of material (something textile, a blanket, sheet, etc.) to Unfurl (Alison Knowles, 1979).

ACT 4: Sat 3 Jan 2pm:
Cut out question marks from newspapers and affix them to things you want to question. Bring pictures of where you placed them (Julius Koller, 1996).

ACT 5: Sat 10 Jan 2pm:
Write an instruction for other people to carry out, and bring anything they’ll need to do it (Hans Ulrich Obrist, 1993 - 2005). 

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